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Tape. >> reporter: london. how serious is it? any implication that it was coming here? any of the things that they have seen were coming here? director clapper? >> all right. i mean, point taken, there, sawyer's wording may have been vague. instead of saying today's arrest of a dozen terror suspects in the united kingdom, she said london, not uk. but then again, mr. brennan clearly understood what she meant when he jumped in to save his colleague. by this morning, clapper's office had dropped the ambiguity defense. they said this, director clapper had not yet been briefed on the arrest in the ...

I'm glad that jim clapper is not sitting in front of the tv 24 hours a day and monitoring what's coming out of the media. >> well, you know, we kind of agree with you on that, mr. brennan. we don't want mr. clapper to be getting his briefings from us in the media either. i mean, we think he should be well aware of any terror threats or suspected plolts or planned arrests or anything for that matter long before we in the media are reporting the story. after all, the job clapper now holds director of national security was created in 2004 to prevent the kind of intelligence famers er failures tha...

Clapper was busy. on monday. there's a lot going on in the world, no question, and he didn't get briefed. period. but why not? they say this. he wasn't immediately briefed on london, clapper's spokeswoman said, because it didn't appear to have a homeland nexus and there was no immediate action by the dni. homeland nexus. that sounds kind of jargony. we weren't sure what that meant. are they trying to say the suspected plot posed no risk to americans? nevertheless, he should have been briefed on the arrest and steps should have been taken to ensure that he is in the future. the intelligence com...

Morning. >> reporter: yes. >> oh. >> this is something the british informed us this morning. >> reporter: later in the interview, i came back to the director. did he really not know? i was a little surprised you didn't know about london, director clapper. >> oh. i'm sorry. i didn't. >> you referenced london but you didn't talk about the arrests. >> that was john brennan there, the president's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism who essentially bailed mr. clapper out. the interview was taped around 3:45 in the afternoon, yet you just heard clapper say he didn't know anything ab...

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